On Monday, March 30, 2015 07:07:39 PM symack wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> New install, on a old server with raid 10 scsi... The normal installation
> works fine,
> the only thing is when we try to boot with xen, it gets to the prompt and
> then reboots
> by itself. The following message is what differs between normal gentoo and
> xen kernel
>
> Mar 31 06:32:18 test kernel: [    0.138644] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND,
> While evaluating Sleep State [\_S1_] (20140724/hwxface-580)
> Mar 31 06:32:18 test kernel: [    0.138961] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND,
> While evaluating Sleep State [\_S2_] (20140724/hwxface-580)
> Mar 31 06:32:18 test kernel: [    0.139267] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND,
> While evaluating Sleep State [\_S3_] (20140724/hwxface-580)
>
>
> I'm never sure how to debug such errors. Some googling suggested adding
> ACPI flags (ie, force, on, off), when I do that, the system just reboots
> without getting to the login prompt.
>
> The server is an X346 with hardward servraid 7K with raid 10.
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> N.

Do you have the XEN dom0 support compiled into the kernel?

I have the following options on one of my servers and don't recall the issue
you are facing:
# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i xen
CONFIG_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_DOM0=y
CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y
CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=500
CONFIG_XEN_SAVE_RESTORE=y
# CONFIG_XEN_PVH is not set
CONFIG_PCI_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND=y
CONFIG_INPUT_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_HVC_XEN=y
CONFIG_HVC_XEN_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=y
# Xen driver support
CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON=y
# CONFIG_XEN_SELFBALLOONING is not set
CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y
CONFIG_XEN_DEV_EVTCHN=y
CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND=y
CONFIG_XENFS=y
CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_XENFS=y
CONFIG_XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR=y
CONFIG_XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV=y
CONFIG_XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC=m
CONFIG_SWIOTLB_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_TMEM=m
CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND=m
CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=y
CONFIG_XEN_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
# CONFIG_XEN_MCE_LOG is not set
CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_PVMMU=y


I, currently, have the following versions for Xen running:
app-emulation/xen-4.3.3-r3
app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.3-r1

These are scheduled to be upgraded during the next maintenance window.

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Joost